On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:36:30 +0100, Markus Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors: > for a script I'm writing I need to get information for several packages. > Because "dpkg -s ..." is slow I thought about using grep/awk on > /var/lib/dpkg/status directly to get the information. I'm not sure if this > is a valid possibility or if direct access to /var/lib/dpkg/status should be > avoided. > Can someone comment on this please?
It's not particularly discouraged I guess as that is what grep-dctrl does anyway. Perhaps you should try that instead of rolling your own awk script, though? <http://packages.debian.org/grep-dctrl> /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/
